The ex-wife of the disgraced former Cabinet Minister Chris Huhne was moved to an open prison in the Kent countryside after spending just four nights inside HMP Holloway, one of the toughest jails in the country.

The pair were both sentenced to eight months for perverting the course of justice after she accepted his speeding points a decade ago.

Dressed in dark clothing and court shoes with no make-up, Pryce clutched bundles of paperwork and held her glasses as she walked around the gardens of the 15th century Elizabethan manor with prison staff.

She faces working on the prison farm alongside other inmates as she serves her time at East Sutton Park jail in Maidstone

It is described as a “pleasant mansion house overlooking the Weald of Kent” by the Prison Service, aims to prepare offenders for their release into the community, and produces “unusually good outcomes” according to inspectors.